TOD NIELSEN, VICE president of Microsoft´s platform group, opened Comdex/Spring 2000 in Chicago Tuesday morning with a relaxed, upbeat keynote that extolled the virtues of Windows 2000, hinted at the forthcoming Next Generation Windows Services, and joked about Linux.

The opening keynote at Comdex/Spring 2000, delivered last year by Bill Gates, was handed down to Microsoft Senior Vice President Jim Allchin this year. The little-known Nielsen was substituted for Allchin a few days before the show.

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